hi all slightly
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but along the same path is a post i copied from a friend on another forum but it makes sense about the reasons for the so called fuel crisis and how inept our so called leader is,,shocking anyhow have a read,opinions all welcome!
The reason we are struggling to make enough power for the grid is simple. Boris and all the green nonsense.
For 30 years the electricity and gas supply has been taxed to death so we pay 2 and now 3 or 4 times as much as say the US do for power.
Likewise we pay 59P on every litre in direct taxation. And then we pay another 20% VAT on top of that (yes we tax the tax) which ends up as around 79% tax on petrol. Again this is supposed to cover subsidies to the "green" nonsense.
We used to have all the gas we needed in the north sea for the next 60 years. This is not green, So it has been ignored and shut down. And instead of sending out all the teams to identify new oil and gas areas in the north sea, they shut it all down. So now we are dependent on:
Coal. To generate electricity. But we shut down all our cheap coal supplies, and DESTROYED 85% of the power station and blew up the cooling towers live on TV while the retards celebrated. So now we have zero cheap coal electricity either.
Gas. We have gas generating stations. It typically supplies 30 to 55% of our electricity. Only we now have very little of our own gas. Because boris says its not green. So we are now dependent on buying electricity, from 6 different countries at extreme cost. Buying gas at a now rediculus 250% increased price in 1 year.
We converted 2 big power stations that were col, to burn super expensive wood pellets instead. Because obviously chopping down vast forrests in the USA and turning it to pellets and shipping it to the UK makes loads of sense! How the hell is that green?
We have 7 nuclear power stations. Of these 4 are about to be decommishions. So 2/3rds of the nuclear power will be offline soon.
Meaning we are totally reliant of 6 or 7 other outside countries for massively overpriced electricity generating fuel. And direct electricity from many "interconnects" (think extension leads to other countries.
And if that isnt bad enough this country uses gas directly to heat almost all of its homes... So now we are forced to pay 250% ore in just 12 months. And its still climbing. While the sea than is 3 miles from me has enough natural methane to power the country for 60 years that we ALREADY know about. But are not using...
Then boris banned al new gas heating boilers in 2025. We all have to fit super crappy unreliable heat pumps that only put out 60degrees C water. And we have no power to run these! Same with cars, vans, trucks, etc.
And boris insists that no new petrol or deisel cars in 2030. So no means of generating power to power these... The grid already cant cope.
All this green nonsense means that all this thousands of square miles of windmills was "invested" in. Those work and supply up to half the UKs power. ONLY WHEN THE WIND BLOWS. Unfortunately we had 3 months where it didnt. Those massively expensive windmills made just 2% of our needs for THREE MONTHS recently. Its all rediculous. It will banjrupt the country and business. And it wont fix anything.
https://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
Live mix of fuels for electricity.